03-12-2026 07:45 AM
Hello everybody.
Can you tell me if the 9800 supports accounting without an IP address for the client. It works at 8540.
03-12-2026 09:28 AM
- @a-s-kurchenko75 Could you post an example of such an accounting record as you see it on the 8540 ?
M.
03-12-2026 10:06 AM
WLC 8540 (running AireOS) commonly supports sending RADIUS accounting start messages immediately upon Layer 2 authentication—even if the client's IP is not yet known—the Catalyst 9800 (running IOS-XE) handles this differently.
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03-12-2026 10:11 AM
https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/ios-xml/ios/ipaddr_dhcp/configuration/xe-2/dhcp-xe-2-book.pdf
IOX-XE seems to implemented some changes regarding this. With AirOS, Accounting records could be sent before DHCP completes. With IOS-XE Framed-IP-Address attribute is populated after DHCP assignment.
If you can, it may be interesting check with TAC but I am pretty confident that this change may explain your question.
03-17-2026 03:01 AM
Thanks everyone. That's probably true.
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